I have seen PPM evolve a lot over the period of time i.e. since v7.5 days. PPM has come a long way, since 9.X on-wards it has shown massive improvements both at user end as well as functional end. We are currently on 9.40 and are soon going... more»

Certainly we have had good impact in our organisation. We have explored all the features of the tool.. we mainly use it for managing programs, resources, projects and time. We do explore some features of portfolio management. Our organisation... more»

There is quite a few areas of improvement - Reporting; need to be able to provide fancy reporting out of PPM, way it is done in OBIEE etc.. - A lot of pain points in resource management area, that needs to be addressed. Currently we have to... more»

When we're doing it the most successfully, we do not over-allocate resources. We schedule projects in such a way that they do not clash on resources. Instead of executing all projects at the same time, we put up a schedule. And when resources... more»

Support and license management are two hurdles for us. Every time we purchase new licenses, it has taken us half a year to implement those. We've had to use HPE technical support to get the right licenses. We needed a cumulative license file... more»

We are now more ready to consolidate and analyze our long term planning portfolio and understand our financial and resource levels before making investment decisions. We can also track time spent on the different projects.

User interface continues to be poor. The product does not have a similar view in the different modules, e.g., staffing vs financial management, it looks like you are working with a different product and it is not easy to use or intuitive. The... more»

The number of different things which it is able to do. There are so many different pieces of functionality, and we use almost every single piece from deployment to demand, project, resource, and time management.

We don't really use some of the things that they are improving, because we're still very much waterfall vs agile. A lot of the new functionality that they are adding for agile doesn't pertain to us. However, we constantly put in requests for... more»

It is user friendly. The product has a neat and clean user interface. It serves the purpose of what we are looking for. It's a great tool for portfolio management and project management. In our organization, we use this tool for portfolio... more»

It gives a more organized approach for managing the projects and helps us since many things can be automated using this tool, which were previously done manually. We have automated our entire project delivery mechanism using this product.... more»

Features such as the chargeback mechanism as well as managing various partners and cloud service providers needs to be improved. If these can be integrated into the product itself, it will become a single source for all IT information. We... more»

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HPE Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) provides critical information in real time to help you make the right investment decisions. It standardizes, manages, and captures the execution of project and operational activities as well as resources.